Year: 2010
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Google Predictive Search
Funny what people are searching for. This is what Google Predictive Search gives you when you start typing a search starting with “is “. Interesting that the possibility of Facebook being down is the most significant concern facing mankind today. Plus, I know Lady Gaga is far from being the prize pig, but still… Read more
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Warehouse becomes a home
As the year closes, so does another project. For the past two-and-a-half years, I’ve been working on implementing a new SAP-based warehousing system at my long-standing client. This has been my seventh SAP project, but probably the one I have enjoyed the most. This has been largely due to the fact that I have been required to actually teach (normally I manage to delegate that to my underlings), and the fact that most of the users have been ‘real people, with real jobs’. Mainly forklift operators, who go to work in company-provided work clothes with their names stitched onto their… Read more
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Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings
Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings Is it excessive that I now have 3 versions of some of Dylan’s albums – CD, remastered CD, and now mono CD? (and a full 70 albums in total). Expensive, but worth every cent. And to give Columbia credit, they included a code to download the entire box as MP3s, to save me ripping everything (although these are best appreciated off the CD on a decent stereo). Say what you want, Dylan is a stone genius. Read more
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Best?…Bye!
There’s been a lot of press recently regarding the ‘death of the CD’. (Actually, it started a couple of years ago, but seems to have gained momentum in the past month or so.) CD sales are in a continued state of decline, and everyone seems to be blaming downloads (which are at least on the rise). I’m not so sure that downloading is the culprit. I blame the major record stores – which out where I live here is (the self-proclaimed) Best Buy. Maybe my tastes are getting ‘more selective’, but I find that I’m increasingly unable to find the… Read more
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Underkill
Back in the day (like 30 years ago!) I was a big Heavy Metal fan. This was during “the golden age”, around the time that the NWOBHM was starting to garner some attention. Iron Maiden were riding high, and we also had Saxon, Judas Priest, UFO, and the first Def Leppard album. But the band that really captured my obsession were Motorhead. They had it all – they were the loudest, the fastest, the ugliest… Although I never had the chance to see them live, I had every album, and spent many an hour listening to Overkill and No Sleep… Read more